Tag Archives: Sara Gruen

I don’t feel compelled to list each book individually for the first time since I started doing these. This is because, for the first time since I started reviewing books I have read here, I actually reviewed all six books I finished in January: The Green House, Darkness at Noon, Water for Elephants, Girl With […]

It must have been five or six years ago that a package arrived from my father containing two books, this one and Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus, and a note saying something to the effect that he was glad I now read literary novels (as opposed to almost exclusively science fiction) and that perhaps I would […]

Mario Vargas Llosa’s classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary […]

About me

Joshua Nudell is a historian of Ancient Greece, with a particular emphasis on Ionia, Macedonia, Thessaly, and other peripheral areas of the Northern and Eastern Aegean. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Missouri.

He is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Centered on the Periphery: the changing dynamic between Ionia and Imperial Powers 454-294 BCE."